2010-05-21 15:13![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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digitaldisciplineAs much as I like Bob, the guy from BP we'd work with a lot at my office in New Orleans (and, really, I'd be stunned if any of what happened is in any way his fault), I've had it with the kid gloves treatment they're getting in the media.
Seriously. The public outrage over the ongoing fuckmuppetry has less to do with the grotesque scale of the disaster (which, make no mistake, is FUCKING HUGE), it has everything to do with the corporate attitude towards dealing with it.
Corporations have been afforded (entirely too fucking many of) the attributes of citizens, but without the conscience that makes all but the rankest sociopaths and psychopaths at least moderately human.
I don't know about you folks, but I was raised to clean up my messes. THAT is why people are pissed off. At the bottom of it all, this whole thing is not some complex calculous of environmental and economic impact; it's grabbing a handful of napkins when you knock over someone's beer.
Sure, you buy them a new beer, and even offer to pay to do their laundry if you really gave them a lap-full, but before any of that happens, you pick up the glass and wipe off the table.
BP has knocked over a well-shaken growler, and is standing around, shouting drunkenly at Transocean for staggering around and bumping into them, while all the while the Mineral Management Service, the bartender in this whole sad fucking fiasco, who should have cut both of these assholes off about six rounds back, stands around, wringing its damp hankerchief ineffectually... and nobody is doing more than casting cursory glances at the beer sluicing all over the table, onto the booth, and into the lap of some dame who's seen better days.
Seriously. The public outrage over the ongoing fuckmuppetry has less to do with the grotesque scale of the disaster (which, make no mistake, is FUCKING HUGE), it has everything to do with the corporate attitude towards dealing with it.
Corporations have been afforded (entirely too fucking many of) the attributes of citizens, but without the conscience that makes all but the rankest sociopaths and psychopaths at least moderately human.
I don't know about you folks, but I was raised to clean up my messes. THAT is why people are pissed off. At the bottom of it all, this whole thing is not some complex calculous of environmental and economic impact; it's grabbing a handful of napkins when you knock over someone's beer.
Sure, you buy them a new beer, and even offer to pay to do their laundry if you really gave them a lap-full, but before any of that happens, you pick up the glass and wipe off the table.
BP has knocked over a well-shaken growler, and is standing around, shouting drunkenly at Transocean for staggering around and bumping into them, while all the while the Mineral Management Service, the bartender in this whole sad fucking fiasco, who should have cut both of these assholes off about six rounds back, stands around, wringing its damp hankerchief ineffectually... and nobody is doing more than casting cursory glances at the beer sluicing all over the table, onto the booth, and into the lap of some dame who's seen better days.
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